{"id":211388,"date":"2022-10-21T18:49:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T13:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=211388"},"modified":"2022-10-21T18:49:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T13:19:07","slug":"indigenous-uav-rustom-2-to-complete-user-trials-by-august-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indigenous-uav-rustom-2-to-complete-user-trials-by-august-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous UAV Rustom-2 to complete user trials by August 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cIndigenous UAV Rustom-2 to complete user trials by August 2023\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 21st October 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India&#8217;s indigenously developed Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Rustom-2 is expected to complete all user trials by August 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Rustom-2?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rustom 2 is a medium altitude long endurance(MALE) Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is also known as <\/span><b>Tapas-BH<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Tactical Airborne Platform for Aerial Surveillance-Beyond Horizon 201).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Developed by:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE), an arm of DRDO with the production partners being Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) and Bharat Electronics Ltd.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Purpose:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is being developed to carry out surveillance and reconnaissance(ISR) roles and is also capable of carrying different combinations of advanced payloads and capable of auto-landing among others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Significance of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAV): <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">High-endurance UAVs are a priority requirement for the armed forces especially in the standoff with China in Eastern Ladakh.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The armed forces rely heavily on the Israeli Searcher and Heron drones and need more such UAVs. The Services have embarked on a major upgrade project of the Heron UAVs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 A separate proposal for 30 armed Predator drones, 10 for each Service from the U.S. is also in <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">advanced stages.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cIndigenous UAV Rustom-2 to complete user trials by August 2023\u201d published in The Hindu on 21st October 2022. What is the News? India&#8217;s indigenously developed Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Rustom-2 is expected to complete all user trials by August 2023. What is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indigenous-uav-rustom-2-to-complete-user-trials-by-august-2023\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Indigenous UAV Rustom-2 to complete user trials by August 2023<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-211388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}